A reaction
Harry was freaking out. His mum wasn’t his mum. His mum, who died for him, wasn’t his mum. He ran back to the dorm, turned nearly his whole trunk out, looking for the mirror Sirius had given him.( It was honestly pure luck he didn’t wake any of his dorm mates. )He hadn’t used it yet still upset about Sirius thinking he should run away, but that was not important enough for him not to want a fucking explanation.
“Sirius Black” he almost yelled into the mirror once he was back in the empty classroom. He had to wait for a little bit, before a disheveled Sirius showed up in the reflection.
“Hey pup, what’s wrong? Are you okay? Did someone hurt you? Where are you?”
“I’m okay. Not in any danger. Take a breath. “ Harry hadn’t considered that it might be a little late in the day to reach out without any warning, but he still needed some answers.
“God you really freaked me out there. But I’m so happy you called, I was starting to think you wouldn’t. Are you sure you’re okay? You look pretty fucking freaked out.”
“I’m fine Pads. I just… ehm I don’t… so yeah there was this letter. Mum, she left me a letter… Lilly left a letter, ehm anyway, do you remember.. like in the fall of 79’? my parents going out to celebrate like a victory? at a bar? They would have met someone named Tony there?” Now that Harry had the chance he didn’t actually know how to ask, or what really.
Sirius thought for a moment “ I.. think so .. yeah Tony I remember Tony, he was right hoot. God we all got so wasted that night, it was bloody fantastic.. wait how the fuck do you know about that night?”
“Well you know mu.. Lilly thought I should know about the night I was conceived.
To explain why my father was really my mother and I have another father or something. So…”
Sirius just stared at him for almost a minute before he started talking again “ wait what do you mean? Why wouldn’t they have told me!? That’s… yeah… wow. Can I see that letter?”
Harry nodded and just held the letter up in front of the mirror, feeling a little bit vindicated that he wasn’t the only one who thought this was crazy.
“ Fuck. Ok so I’m not really sure why they didn’t tell me, but I guess it makes sense not to want to spread it about. What with Tony being a muggle, and the whole out of wedlock thing you know.
But yeah fuck so do you like wanna meet him and shit?” Sirius was still very obviously shocked and perhaps a little betrayed that they didn’t tell him, but Harry still thought he was taking it a little too well.
“ But padfoot men can’t get pregnant?”
“Off course they can. Well not most of us, but you know, a carrier pops up every now and then in most wizarding families. That’s nothing new. Honestly it’s quite common in the Potter family, well it skipped a couple generations but ya know ‘historically’.
So it’s not really that surprising that your dad had the gene.”
Harry was really confused cause the way his godfather just said that made it sound like common knowledge. “Shouldn’t I have like learned this in school or something, this seems like really important information for teenagers to have!?”
“Usually your parents or guardians would tell you.“ Sirius shrugged “But I guess your muggles don’t know about that.”
“I… okay. Men can get pregnant.. sure… but Lilly died protecting me why would she do that if I wasn’t her son? If I was just.. her husband’s .. bastard? Why would she care?”
Sirius focused at that “ Harry I need you to read through that letter again. And really focus on the part where Lilly says she loves you. Cause she did. I saw her with you, and the look in her eyes when she was holding you. She looked at James with love, but with you it was so much more.
There is no way you were just the unfortunate addition to James. Honestly sometimes it felt like it was the opposite.
She died protecting you because she loved you. Because she couldn’t imagine living in a world without you. Please don’t doubt that. They both loved you so much.”
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Harry went to bed soon after that, not that he slept much. He spent the next couple of days so quietly that he didn’t even get detention from Umbridge.
Then Hermione decided that he should be their secret DADA teacher and he got busy again. He also discovered, while trying to figure out what they needed to learn to pass their OWL’s, that he actually kind of liked research when Hermione wasn’t dictating exactly how he did it. Honestly Hermione and Ron being made prefects, was probably the best thing that ever happened to him, it took up so much of their time, that, they actually had to let him do the research on his own. He learned so much.
The rest of term was pretty busy, with the DA and detention. He also still found time to talk to Sirius about once a week. He told him about his dad and their time in school, apparently they spent a lot of their time either pranking or developing pranks. He also admitted that they had gone a little too far sometimes, he said that at the time it felt mutual, but Lilly had told them later that one to four had never been fair and that was really just bullying. It had been uncomfortable for Harry to hear about, but it was also something that made his parents real people, and not just these perfect heroes that died for him.
It really didn’t feel like very long before Harry found himself back at headquarters being hugged by Sirius after visiting Arthur in the hospital.